Slugish Behavior

[matthew]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Using Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3 Beta 5. When I'm Browsing the web, sometimes firefox will start to take up a lot of processing power. Firefox 3 will lag. For example it will not let me click anything on the screen for a few seconds. When I scroll, firefox will take a couple of seconds to respond. This even happens on plain html pages. When I restart firefox, the problem will be solved for a while. This problem is not there for me on firefox 2.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 28 10:15:28 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[kulight (kulight)]

i can confirm that one

in addition its grinding the hard drive and becomes unresponsive